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PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: September 24, 2006

1 2 MORRIGAN'S CROSS, by Nora Roberts. (Jove, $7.99.) In this first book of a proposed trilogy, a sorcerer gathers five warriors to help him battle a vampire who lured his twin brother to the dark side.

2 12 THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards. (Penguin, $14.) A doctor's decision to secretly send his newborn daughter, who has Down syndrome, to an institution haunts everyone involved.

3 2 CAMEL CLUB, by David Baldacci. (Warner Vision, $7.99.) A group of conspiracy theorists stumbles on a plot reaching to the highest levels of government.

4 1 AT FIRST SIGHT, by Nicholas Sparks. (Warner, $13.99.) The young couple from "True Believer," who are now expecting a child, get a disturbing message.

15 1 THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold. (Little, Brown, $7.50.) A girl looks down from heaven as she describes the aftermath of her kidnapping and murder.

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1 109 RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, by Augusten Burroughs. (Picador, $14 and $7.99.) In the 1970's, a young boy lives with a crazy psychiatrist in a squalid household.

2 35 THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls. (Scribner, $14.) The author, a contributor to MSNBC.com, recalls a bizarre childhood during which she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.

3 34 NIGHT, by Elie Wiesel. (Hill & Wang, $9.) A new translation of an account of the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, first published in English in 1960.

4 12 1776, by David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster, $18.) An account of America's founding year, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of John Adams, focusing on the inexperienced George Washington and the heroic citizen soldiers.

5 9 FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, by James Bradley with Ron Powers. (Bantam, $14 and $7.99.) The story of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.

5 105 THE FOUR AGREEMENTS, by Don Miguel Ruiz. (Amber-Allen, $12.95.) A code of conduct based on personal freedom. ()

Rankings reflect sales, for the week ended Sept. 9, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 60,000 other retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statistically weighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger () indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available at The New York Times on the Web: nytimes.com/books.